This is a surprising story of an old woman in Spain who just messed up!
An elderly woman in Spain messed up and destroyed a 19th century church fresco, The Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) with her restoration attempts that she undertook without permission in August 2012.
Before and after...
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| Ecce Homo by 19th-century painter Elías García Martínez on the walls of the church of Santuario de Misericordia Photo: gawker.com |
The Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) in the Sanctuary of Mercy church in Borja, Spain, is a fresco painted circa 1930 by the Spanish painter Elías García Martínez depicting Jesus crowned with thorns. Both the subject and style are typical of traditional Catholic art.
Intersetingly, Old lady's repair job on fresco becomes unlikely tourist attraction as hundreds queue to see her handiwork..
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| Tourists flock to see the damaged 19th century Ecce Homo fresco (right) by artist Elias Garcia Martinez at the Santuario de Misericordia de Borja Church, at Borja in Spain's Aragon region |
But very surprisingly the woman who ruined Fresco Of Jesus then demanded to get paid! and above of it she claimed copyright over the reformed painting.
In September 2012, Cecilia Giménez, the Spanish woman who really messed up when she tried to restore a 19th-century fresco of Jesus demanded a piece of the action from the 2,000 or so euros ($2,600) her church had collected from tourists coming to see the ruined artwork.
Spain's El Correo reports, according to Gawker's translation, that the 80+ year-old Giménez hired lawyers to make her case. The Church also lawyered up. A court battle went on as expected.
What followed it was Epic.. Read it here
Overnight interest in it exploded. The painting became an sensation when pictures of her amateur 'restoration' hit the internet and sparked a craze for copycat 'restorations', mocked-up purely for comic purposes online.
Many of Leonardo Da Vinci's most iconic creations have been given the botched restoration treatment; with the Mona Lisa's...
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